Vocal Voices

Watched it on tv
What a lovely day for those veteran's
They deserved there day
My dad was in Burma in the war
With the REME

One of my aunties who has died was the matron of a military hospital in India during the war. She did not say much about the condition when she returned home. Did not see any fighting but she must have nursed wounded soldiers during her time there.

I have always had sympathy for our 'forgotten' army in the East during WW2.

The Japs were unbelievably cruel to POWs, and I have no regrets about the USA
using atomic bombs to end the conflict.

My FiL was in the RAF during WW2, but when they found out he was a linguist, he was, after training, posted to a remote place in India which was a Far East outpost of Bletchley Park! He learnt the (rather specialist) language that the Japanese Navy used to communicate by radio and spent most of the war deciphering intercepted messages.

He had signed the Official Secrets Act and would never talk about his experiences, but I do recall finding he had kept some very strange Japanese>English dictionaries on his bookshelf in later life!

The Japanese were indeed unbelievably cruel and it was part of their psyche. Little different in principle, in fact, to the way the Islamic State terrorists of today treat "unbelievers", if you think about it. Would we drop the atomic bomb on ISIS - of course not! But I do think we should grasp the nettle and ramp up the conventional bombing ......

Just my 2c worth ...

TheOstrich wrote:My FiL was in the RAF during WW2, but when they found out he was a linguist, he was, after training, posted to a remote place in India which was a Far East outpost of Bletchley Park! He learnt the (rather specialist) language that the Japanese Navy used to communicate by radio and spent most of the war deciphering intercepted messages.

He had signed the Official Secrets Act and would never talk about his experiences, but I do recall finding he had kept some very strange Japanese>English dictionaries on his bookshelf in later life!

The Japanese were indeed unbelievably cruel and it was part of their psyche. Little different in principle, in fact, to the way the Islamic State terrorists of today treat "unbelievers", if you think about it. Would we drop the atomic bomb on ISIS - of course not! But I do think we should grasp the nettle and ramp up the conventional bombing ......

Just my 2c worth ...

How interesting oss my dad never spoke about it either
When he was in the jungle fighting he tried to forget

Very brave men and women indeed. Mick's great uncle was in Changi in Singapore He came home but was never the same. ..